Friday, January 24, 2014

How Hint.fm Brought the World to Life

Hint.fm's beautiful Wind Map
has proved a source of inspiration for a number of map developers. This
real-time animated map of wind speed and direction is a gorgeous
realization of live meteorological data.

Hint.fm's animated Wind Map has proved very popular and has inspired a number of developers to create similar maps that are bringing the elements to life.

The Ocean Currents Map visualizes daily-averaged ocean surface currents around the United States. It uses the same mapping techniques as the Hint.fm Wind Map to animate the currents streaming around the country.

The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Association were inspired by the Wind Map to create their own live currents map of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Surface Currents Map is an animated map simulating the flow patterns in the Great Lakes.

Tokyo also has its own real-time wind map. The Tokyo Wind Map
is an animated map of real-time wind speeds and direction. The map also
includes controls to view previous hours' wind data on the map.